Ron English and that Renaissance landmark work that you do not expect.

Ron English, known in the art world as one of the leading figures in street art, who has composed numerous murals both in Miami and around the world, was the winner of the annual Art Wynwood Tony Goldman Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award in 2019: The year in which both in Wynwood and around Miami, his characters swarmed with two or more recognizable iconic images in abrupt juxtapositions, with which he ...

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Joseph Christian Leyendecker the illustrator who virtually invented the idea of modern magazine design.

Joseph Christian Leyendecker was one of the greatest illustrators of "The Golden Age of American Illustration": the period between 1850 and 1925 during which American illustration art had reached its peak. Although J.C. Leyendecker was almost forgotten, after the covers of Norman Rockwell who, with his iconic images of America linked to the values of the God, country and family, made both Americans and the rest of the world dream, ...

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Duane Hanson: hyperrealism that takes you by surprise.

Let's call it hyperrealism, radical realism or new realism: the undisputed protagonist of the issue are Duane Hanson's sculptures. I admit that the first times I saw Duane Hanson's works I was perplexed: I was in Palm Beach, on the famous Worth Avenue and from the window of a gallery I saw a policeman in uniform, I observed him for a while and approached him nonchalantly: only after having observed ...

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A fox named BK in the limelight in the New York street art scene but not only.

BK FOXX, her name comes from her initials associated with her favourite animal: the fox, an animal with a positive value in almost all cultures. BK Foxx is an artist originally from New York, technically Long Island, but she works everywhere. If you pass through Miami, Wynwood, you will see one of its large murals made entirely with spray cans, without brushes, stencils or anything else. Her ideas are born ...

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Art Basel Announces the cancellation of Art Basel/Miami Beach, taking with it several satellite fairs and reconfirming itself as the glue of Miami Art Week.

Remember the crowds of people in Miami during the Miami Art Week: a throng of people from everywhere as if there was no tomorrow, on a postcard challenge: among clear blue skies, palm trees, sculptures and Art Deco buildings. Unfortunately, the Covid-19 did not exempt anyone and until the last moment we had hoped, given that we were still a few months away from the official opening of Miami Art ...

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Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) the great mystery that is perpetuated over the centuries between grotesque characters, owls, fires and human madness.

The figure of Anthoniszon van Aken, better known under the pseudonym Hieronymus Bosch, is still shrouded in mystery. One of the greatest and most mysterious, Flemish masters, Bosch has managed to liven up the imagination of scholars and enthusiasts thanks to the stories full of symbolism and mysticism told, with meticulous detail, by each of the many characters, ironic and grotesque, who inhabit his paintings.  Hieronymus Bosch, was born into a ...

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